We r picking up car in Frankfurt and want to spend time traveling German wine road, on our way to Venice. Any recommendations for towns or wineries to visit in Pflaz, Will be there oct 4th, but haven’t decided how many nights to stay. Also any recommendations on website where we can find list of wine festivals?
Posted by
Twin Cities of MN
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You will be close to both the Mosel and the Rhine. Koblenz puts you on the confluence of the two and was an interesting city to visit. There are two interesting castles there, Marksburg and Ehrenbreitstein. There were some cute/picturesque aspects of Ruedesheim, but there were twice as many people there than I could really handle due to a wine festival, I believe. However, there is a walkway above the town with beautiful views of the town, grapes and the Rhine that leads to a gondola. The gondola will take you to a town next to Ruedesheim which looked very interesting,Assmannshausen. I plan to go back to the area, and plan to stop at a lot of the little towns on the middle Rhine including Bacharach, Boppard and Oberwesel, as well as spend time on the Mosel.
Posted by
Paradise
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Bad Dürkheim isn't a bad place - and it's on the German Wine Route that you will be traveling. I haven't been there myself in many years:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g198626-Activities-Bad_Durkheim_Rhineland_Palatinate.html
The German Wine Harvest Festival (Weinlesefest) in Neustadt-an-der-Weinstrasse is on during your stay:
https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/life/the-german-wine-harvest-festival
You can read about the "New Wine" fest in Mußbach, just outside Neustadt-an-der-Weinstrasse, here. Click on the down arrow at the top right corner of the page and select English.
Posted by
Niagara, Ontario
1548 posts
The Pfalz area is worth a few days. The main wine festival, in Bad Durkheim, takes place before your arrival. The wine route starts a number of miles north of it. The following are attractive villages, all small: Freinsheim, Dorrenbach, Deidesheim and Sankt Martin, the latter just off the main wine road. More information at: https://www.deutsche-weinstrasse.de/deutsch/aktuelles/
and https://www.pfalz.de/en# and https://www.romantic-germany.info/holiday-regions/palatinate/
Wooded walks to the west, Heidelberg and Speyer to the east. At the bottom of the Weinstrasse, just over the border in France is the charming little town of Wissembourg.
Posted by
Germany
268 posts
Be aware that the places mentioned by jules are worth visiting, but they are not in the Pfalz region. (Note: Pfalz or Palatinate, not Pflaz).
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Northamptonshire, England
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Just a few miles south of Bad Dürkheim is Deidesheim with a neat sculptured fountain, right in the vineyards - nearby smaller villages even have vines growing over the road as squared off arches - which is a very nice small town. Great festival every year too, when the great ram is auctioned off as payment for a vineyard rental.
Not far away is Speyer. Lots to see there.